SixtyNine Seventy, The Spaces Between: An Urban Ideas Competition

Why we need it?

Salt Lake City boasts a stunning natural setting, numerous cultural amenities, a unique history, a vibrant retail core, and a thriving and diverse business community. Currently, it lacks connection between many of these elements. The design competition seeks to harness ideas from around the world that will activate the spaces between with creativity deeply rooted in the city’s rich context. We hope new ideas will act as a catalyst for design-led growth downtown, helping redefine blocks sixty-nine and seventy, and the evolution of Salt Lake City as a whole. We want the fabric, textures, and essence of this city to create an energy that gives back to all who engage it.

How it works?

SixtyNine Seventy, The Spaces Between: An Urban Ideas Competition launches on January 10, 2013 with a party at 7:00 PM at Squatters Pub. The competition and launch party are open to everyone. For those not able to attend the opening night presentations will be posted on the web immediately following the event. Entries will be judged by a panel that includes architects, artists, urban planners, historic experts, and politicians. Two winning projects and fifteen finalists will be eligible for the People’s Choice award. Finalists will be displayed at the Leonardo, around the city of Salt Lake, and online at www.sixtynineseventy.com for public viewing and voting. Winners will be announced in June, 2013. Winners will be published in Architect Magazine.

Who we are?

The competition organizers are the AIA Utah Young Architects Forum and the Downtown Alliance in collaboration with Utah Heritage Foundation and many other passionate thinkers and planners of our capital city. We are architects, urban planners, landscape architects, artists, historians, graphic designers, film producers, performance artists, and elected officials who have a common vision for our city’s evolution.

For more information

Heather Vance
AIA Utah
268 South State Street, Ste 190
Salt Lake City, Utah
United States of America
Telephone: +1 801-532-1727

awards

2 jury Award.- $40,000
People’s choice Award - $40,000

Entrant Eligibility

The competition is open to everyone. Entrants are encouraged to form design groups with a varied composition of experts in any of the fields related to the built
environment. Members of the jury, their business partners, and close relatives are excluded from the competition. All persons who have participated in the preparation work of the competition are also excluded. The competition organiser decides any exclusion matters.

Entry Fees

$85 / entry

Calendario.-

Deadline registration: 23 March.
All questions must be made no later than: 6 April.
All submission materials must be received at the Aia utah office no later than 5:00 p.m. mst on April 20, 2013.

Jury Selection: April 30
Announcement of finalists: May 10
Presentation for the public vote: 10 to 31 May
Winners will be announced June 4, 2013.